I can first remember being terrified of spiders at five years old when I would run away from the black widows that infested my backyard. To this day, I am still terrified of spiders. The bigger the spider, the more scared I become. I also fear insects if I do not know what type of insect it is. While I have had this fear for the majority of my life, I do not know why I fear these arachnids or unknown insects. That is why when I came across this article dealing with the insects that haunt the human mind, I decided to use it for my paper. Within this article, Jeffrey Lockwood, compares two different viewpoints on how humans are haunted by bugs. Lockwood explains the two different views of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Sigmund Freud believed fear of bugs dealt with psychological problems, while Carl Jung believed the fear of insects was more based on the theories that are memories come from our inherited memories. In which the memories we have now, were learned through the evolution of the past race. (Lockwood, 2017) …show more content…
Yet it still stood for a bigger idea. For example, he proposed that the fear of being bitten by a spider represented the fear of being punished by one’s father. (Lockwood, 2017) This was especially interesting to me because I have had a fear since I was very young. I was also very young when I had learned how not to get in trouble to the point I would be punished physically. Simple spankings, not anything abusive. While I am not sure this is accurate with Freud’s theories, it seemed possible to connect these ideals to situations in my personal